Megan Marshall

Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Her biographies have been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction (twice). She is a recipient of the BIO Award, the highest honor given by Biographers International Organization to a writer who has advanced the art and craft of biography, and a past president of the Society of American Historians. Her essay collection, After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart, explores the craft of biography and turns a biographer’s lens on her own life, infusing historical narrative with memoir.

Marshall has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. She was a visiting professor at Kyoto University, and has held residencies at the Bogliasco Study Center and the T.S. Eliot House.

Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, Harvard Review, Arrowsmith Journal, and elsewhere. Links to her magazine publications and media appearances can be found at her website <a href=”https://www.meganmarshallauthor.com/”>meganmarshallauthor.com</a>